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*  Replication materials for 
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*  Ulrich Sieberer and Michael Herrmann, 'Bonding in pursuit of
*  policy goals: How MPs choose political parties in the 
*  legislative state of nature', Legislative Studies Quarterly
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These following files will replicate all analyses contained in the article
and the Supporting Information (SI). 

Given the data files data.dta and idlBillAug48.RData provided in 
these replication materials, the following replication files can
be run independently of each other:

1. estimation.do (estimates main models reported in the article)
2. alternativeSpecifications.do (robustness tests mentioned in footnotes)
3. desricptiveStats.do (descriptive statistics and correlations mentioned in footnotes and SI)
4. figureSI-1.R (figure SI-1 contained in the SI)

The following replication files have to be run after running the
file estimation.do:
 
5.	postEstimation.do (coefficients, model fit, and specification tests for main models)
6.	avgPredProbs.R (Figure with predicted probabilities in the article)
 
